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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New file uploaded to newmellotrongroup

From: Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo.com>
Date: 2008-09-26

Hi all-
 
    Perhaps it is a linear taper.  During repair I measured the resistance change as I turned the control, and seem to remember it as acting like a log-taper pot.  Memories are a funny thing, though, and I'm probably wrong.  But, a linear-taper pot might be easier to find in an electronics shop parts bin.
 
     Thanks-
 
     Bruce D.


--- On Thu, 9/25/08, jeffrey coulter <i_am_zontar@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: jeffrey coulter <i_am_zontar@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New file uploaded to newmellotrongroup
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 3:49 PM

--- On Thu, 9/25/08, john barrick <astroboy@cinci. rr.com> wrote:
> From: john barrick <astroboy@cinci. rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New file uploaded to newmellotrongroup
> To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 5:36 PM
> Hi Bruce. According to the Dave Kean M400 Fix-it Book, the
> tone pot
> (listed as R4) is a 25k Log, not audio taper. The volume
> pot (R1) is
> listed as 10k Log. That's what it says...
> johnbarrick

log would be the same as audio taper.
pots are either linear or log/audio.

...jeff

> Bruce Daily wrote:
> >
> >
> > I don't have the info at hand, but I believe
> the original pot is a
> > 25K ohm audio-taper. I do remember reading in this
> forum that some
> > have substituted a 10K pot, and it gave them a bit
> more control of the
> > tone effect over the full travel of the knob (at the
> expense of
> > loosing a little of the top-end). 10K pots are easier
> to find.
> >
> > Good luck. My best-
> >
> > -Bruce D.
> > #1221
> >
> >
>
>
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